Jailed developer taken home to check on his wife instead of being escorted to Yerwada jail

Instead of taking him back to prison after court hearing, cops took Deepak Patil to his house; duped investors tailed the vehicle and alerted police control room

While out of jail for a court date, a 52-year-old developer, who has been behind bars for six months, decided to visit his wife. Deepak Yashwant Patil convinced the police team escorting him to take him home for a bit instead of heading straight to Yerwada jail. The cops obliged, only to be caught by a group of disgruntled homebuyers, who have been duped by Patil.

The incident occurred on November 3, when Patil was brought to court for a hearing. According to sources, he told the police team that his wife had taken ill and he desperately needed to visit her. Two cops who were deputed to escort him from jail to court and back, let their guard down and agreed to take him.

A group of investors, who were in court to attend the hearing, witnessed Patil being taken in a private car and not a police vehicle, as is the norm, and grew suspicious. One of buyers also realised that the person driving the car was Patil’s son.

Homebuyers tailed the car in which Patil (inset) was being taken from court; the vehicle went straight to his residence at Karishma Society instead of jail; once Alankar cops arrived at his home, Patil’s family refused to open the door; (below right) Baner project in which Patil has allegedly sold non existing flats

Ravindra Kumavat, who has filed an FIR against Patil with the Bund Garden police for duping him, told Mirror, “We spotted the two policemen taking Patil in a private car and realised that the vehicle was being driven by Patil’s son. Initially, we thought they were allowing a private vehicle due to a shortage of official ones. We decided to follow the vehicle anyway and were shocked when we saw that instead of taking the road to the jail, the car was heading towards Kothrud. The car entered Karishma Society, confirming our doubts that something was amiss.” Kumavat filmed the entire episode on a phone camera.

Atul Divekar, another flat buyer with Patil’s Dhartee Infrastructure, was with Kumavat while tailing the suspect car. On realising that cops had brazenly broken the law, Divekar called up the police control room, who in turn directed Alankar police station to send a team to check. “When a team of cops from Alankar police station arrived, the two policemen escorting Patil refused to open the door. They were speaking to the police station cops through a grille on the door. The station cops, however, were very stern and refused to budge. Eventually, Patil and the two escorting cops were taken to Alankar police station,” said Divekar, who like many other buyers, too, has been allegedly duped by Patil.

Patil has constructed housing projects in Baner and Balewadi, where he has sold the same units to multiple buyers. Moreover, he is accused of selling flats on higher floors, which are not even part of the approved plans. So far, six FIRs have been registered against him – five in Chaturshringi police station and one in Bund Garden police station. He has been booked for cheating, fraud, forgery, criminal breach of trust, among other provisions of the Indian Penal Code. He was arrested in April this year and has been behind bars since.

Confirming Saturday’s incident, senior inspector of Alankar police station, Kalpana Jadhav, told Mirror, “We received a call from the control room and immediately sent our staff to Karishma Society. Our team confirmed that the accused, Deepak Patil, had been brought home by a team escorting him. He had apparently claimed that his wife was not keeping well and that he needed to meet her. We have compiled a detailed report of the incident and sent it to the deputy commissioner of police for further action.”

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